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For their 1999 album on techno-fetish label Ritornell, unpredictable Icelandic trio Stillupstepya present several tracks of confusingly mangled digital hum that are more irritating than ambient. Some sections sound almost exactly like my refrigerator. My husband hates it. I like it, but not as much as the excellent Stillupstepya album I'm going to post next...

Sort of a statement of purpose from techno label Mille Plateaux's abstract/experimental offshoot, Ritornell. Released in 2000 at the height of the inexplicable popularity of post-techno computer music, it features several established artists and a few whose entire existence began and ended with the "glitch" bubble. Music by Achim Wollschied (aka SBOTHI), Dean Roberts, Akira Rabeleis, Taylor Deupree, Sony Mao, Terre Thaemlitz, Oyvind Idso, Stillupstepya, Autopoesis, Kim Cascone (of course), Full Swing (aka Stephen Mathieu), Thomas Meinecke's Framus Waikiki (who?), Christoph Charles, and an improvisation by the group of Keith Rowe, Oren Ambarchi, Fennesz, Pimmon, and Peter Rehberg (aka Pita).

When you are more formally known as the Experimental Improvisers' Association of Japan, I reckon EXIAS-J is less of a mouthful. Kanda Shin-Ichiro on piano, Kawasaki Jun on contrabass, Kondo Hideaki and Tanikawa Takuo on guitars and Tetsuya Miyazaki on electronics. Usually, Nishizawa Naoto handles the drums but, on this occasion, Sabu has nicked his seat.

Bloodless and (purposefully?) unsatisfying digital yuck from Mark Fell, released by OR (a sublabel of Touch) in 1999 at a time. Skittery laptop nonsense that ought to appeal to fans of similarly anti-human artists like Farmers Manual, Hecker, Evol or Beautyon.

A series of recordings that were originally released as a double LP on ALM-Uranoia in 1979. Kaoru Abe offers up various improvised performances utilising alto clarinet, guitar, harmonica, piano, marimba and alto saxophone in a variety of improvisations. Sabu stays in his impressive seat and simply does his thing!

I appreciate that if you don't get free-form jazz/sax then you are having a bad week on here. Ah well!

If you do, then you will already know that Kaoru Abe was the epitome. Between 1990 and 1991, DIW released 10 volumes of his Solo Live At Gaya sets. In 1995, they brought them all together as an 11 disc box set with the true bonus of "Kaoru Abe and Yoshisaburo Toyozumi - Duo Live At Gaya" that features two sessions recorded in 1977 and 1978 respectively.

It's all in 16bit flac and weighs in at around 2.7GB. Deocliciano, I hope you've finally got around to buying a new external drive!

This is a collaborative process featuring a host of (almost exclusively) European artists which gives this a distinctly different feel to the previous Sabu projects that I've posted. There are sections that bring 200 Motels into my mind's eye ... I consider that a good thing.

A 2005 CD that compiles songs originally released in 1980, 1981 and 1982. They were taken from the "Schöne Musik Für Schöne Menschen Aus Einer Schönen Welt", "Huch" and "Unerhört" cassettes by Der Lustige Musikant, "Kleine Seele Springst Im Tanze..." tape by Der Ewige Musikant, the "Veitstanz" 7" by Der Künftige Musikant, plus one song taken from a compilation LP. Of course, all of those "bands" are just Rolf Schobert under various pseudonyms, and they all sound pretty similar too: stark, austere yet jaunty synth-pop with a typically German silliness. Recommended for fans of the Tape Attack blog, or anyone interested in the sub-sub-underground of DIY bare-bones synth bands that sprang up in the wake of DAF,Suicide, and The Human League.

Obviously this is Sabu and Peter Brötzmann in full on drum and sax collapse construction. If that's not enough then I am wasting my time.

CD released on Improvised Company in an edition of 750 in 1999.

Discogs has this as an edition of 350. It's self evidently not. Even though 750 is a small edition, maybe the misreporting goes some way to explaining why it's on sale there for £212.85. I'm in a grouchy mood ... but just saying.

Derek Bailey, Peter Brötzmann and Sabu Toyozumi. Peter and Sabu on the first, Derek flying solo on the second. All setting up the finale where all three wreck the joint. Free form jazz collapse at your pleasure!

CD released in Japan on Improvised Company in 2000 in an edition of 550.

One thing is certain, Tomokawa Kazuki doesn't like to limit his talents: folk singer, artist, actor, snappy dresser and all around raconteur. And all of the rest. These three discs compile previously released tracks, live material and previously unreleased tracks. The guitar on the first track goes off a bit Pink Floyd ... if your allergic to such extravagance, don't let it put you off too much, there's gold in them there hills.